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Japan House

This article is about the cultural center at the University of Illinois. For the non-profit organization in New York, see Japan Society (Manhattan).

40°05′34″N 88°13′04″W / 40.0928°N 88.2179°W / 40.0928; -88.2179 Japan House is a learning facility founded in 1976 by Shozo Sato. It is part of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The facility includes three tea rooms, or Chashitsu, a tea garden (Roji) and Japanese rock garden. It currently conducts classes in Japanese tea ceremony, Japanese Aesthetics and Ikebana for university students and members of the community.[1] An annual event at the house welcomes international students.[2] In 2019 an expansion effort was under way.[3]

Japan House
  1. ^ "About Japan House". University of Illinois. Retrieved 30 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Matsuri Festival at Japan House incorporates Indian culture".
  3. ^ "Donations from Japan House founder, his family have annex project moving forward". 24 July 2019.
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